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1.1Train or accustom to behave in a certain way or to accept certain circumstances:

‘our minds are heavily conditioned and circumscribed by habit’

[with object and infinitive]‘they are beliefs which he has been conditioned to accept’

‘social conditioning’

‘It's almost like listening to a lighthouse keeper who's conditioned to pause every five seconds, whether the foghorn's on or not.’

‘I had to actually ask what that meant in terms of the APR and in two cases they even had to go and look it up because they've been so conditioned into only revealing the monthly figure.’

‘Both boys and girls were being conditioned into adopting this stereotyped image of men and women and this indirectly affected their personalities, the study has pointed out.’

‘The bottom line is that we are all being fleeced and are being conditioned to accept less and less every year and pay more for it.’

‘Why is it that New Zealanders condition themselves to accept 4 percent growth?’

‘Mr Noon is right - we, the public, looking back, have been conditioned to have only one reaction: ‘What's the point of objecting!’’

‘We have become conditioned into being, behaving, reacting to any situation in a certain way, and we perpetuate this conditioning by the way we think.’

‘If stepping back is possible, then rationality and thought are not entirely conditioned by language and circumstance.’

‘They are beliefs which he has been conditioned to accept.’

‘This freeplay of subjects has been conditioned by his internalisation through years of experimenting with them.’

‘But I would also say there is a pleasure in self-display that should be shared with those men and boys who have been conditioned into thinking that the only gratification and power is in looking.’

‘The audience has been actively conditioned into being receptive.’

‘Al Qaeda's preference for huge statements, for bold acts of extreme violence in place of a long term incremental strategy, appeals to the expectations of a society which is conditioned by the same global imagery as the west.’

‘We have forgotten the supreme controller as we have been conditioned to accept the material world as containing everything that we need.’

‘We will always have to acknowledge that the natural self, and the human passions, are shaped and conditioned by forces of culture, learning, and history.’

‘We've been conditioned to accept discrimination because for a long time we believed we were what the majority said we were: defective.’

‘The Kaisers were also tired of being conditioned to accept everyone else's values, and when their pursuit of fame turned on them and failed them, they were sick of that too.’

‘As a result of our meat-centred culture, we have been conditioned to think that a meal is necessarily the meat that is included.’

‘It is simply that, although human beings are conditioned by social circumstances into behaving in atrocious ways, those circumstances must have something to operate on.’

‘It was that I had been conditioned into making a grab for a seat, by watching everyone else do the same thing and deciding to copy them.’

‘The horse is conditioned by trainer Sid Attard and owned by Tucci Stables and Lucio Tucci.’

‘Or if you tell them to do so, do you follow up to be sure they are staying conditioned?’

‘Fortunately, common sense has prevailed and a number of the international players who had been pulled out of pre-season action for a strength and conditioning programme will be released back to their clubs in time.’

‘But off-camera the consensus was that by election time those listed would be in no condition to cast a ballot, let alone offer themselves as candidates.’

‘She certainly was in no condition to drive herself to the hospital, and it didn't appear that she was going to be able to draw anyone near this place anytime soon.’

‘Obviously you are in no condition to think straight.’

‘But it was obvious he was in no condition to continue.’

‘The collapsing Soviet Union was in no condition to dissuade its ally.’

on condition that

With the stipulation that:

‘I got three years' probation, on condition that I stay at the hostel for a year’

‘After escaping and being recaptured three times he was allowed his freedom on condition that he left New Zealand.’

‘On an earlier occasion he had been convicted of an offence of dishonesty, placed on probation on condition that he resided at a mental home for treatment.’

‘Reisz had accepted the job on condition that he would be allowed to produce a series of non-advertising documentaries.’

‘The city surrendered on August 10, on condition that the garrison be allowed to leave peacefully.’

‘He marries the King of Kent's daughter on condition that she be allowed to keep her Christianity.’

‘The judge allowed him to walk free but put him on probation for three years on condition that he received medical treatment.’

‘He was given special leave from school on condition that upon his return he gives a presentation to his year group about his African experiences.’

‘They stressed, however, that they would only support this option on condition that there was no reduction in the level of healthcare provision.’

‘However, it is allowed on condition that claims are filed within the prescribed 12 month period.’

‘When he became too old to work on the farm, Banneker sold it to the Ellicot family on condition that he was allowed to live in the farm house for the rest of his days.’

on condition that, on the assumption that, as long as, given that, with the provision that, with the proviso that, on the understanding that, with the understanding that, if and only if, contingent on, in the event that, allowing that